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<blockquote data-quote="radmod" data-source="post: 5278587" data-attributes="member: 93008">Well, I have to admit thinking that 8th isn't really all that high (for most people; in my worlds, 9th is the 'official' high level point). I was also thinking about the City build PCs/NPCs from the DMG. &quot;Certainly, you would have a lot more high level characters than 8th!&quot; But then I remembered exactly how large a number it is if you're higher than 99% of everyone else. That's always been my problem (derived from a statistics background). That number seems small but it really IS large. For example, a 10K pop city in the DMG, could easily have (and probably would) two fighters of higher level. Yet, when you combine all the PCs/NPCs you get less than 50 that are higher than 8th (e.g. &lt;0.5% of pop). Only if you considered levels 6-8 (or so) as roughly equivalent (and, hence, equally 'heroic') would you reach that watermark of 1%.I should remember that,because one world I have (slow growth), the focal point is a large metropolis (&gt;100K) and with intentionally buffed NPCs, there's no way that PCs aren't higher level than 99% of the pop. I'd imagine it's closer to 99.5% and higher.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="radmod, post: 5278587, member: 93008"] Well, I have to admit thinking that 8th isn't really all that high (for most people; in my worlds, 9th is the 'official' high level point). I was also thinking about the City build PCs/NPCs from the DMG. "Certainly, you would have a lot more high level characters than 8th!" But then I remembered exactly how large a number it is if you're higher than 99% of everyone else. That's always been my problem (derived from a statistics background). That number seems small but it really IS large. For example, a 10K pop city in the DMG, could easily have (and probably would) two fighters of higher level. Yet, when you combine all the PCs/NPCs you get less than 50 that are higher than 8th (e.g. <0.5% of pop). Only if you considered levels 6-8 (or so) as roughly equivalent (and, hence, equally 'heroic') would you reach that watermark of 1%. I should remember that,because one world I have (slow growth), the focal point is a large metropolis (>100K) and with intentionally buffed NPCs, there's no way that PCs aren't higher level than 99% of the pop. I'd imagine it's closer to 99.5% and higher. [/QUOTE]

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